Go green with songs for spring cleaning

It's that time of year again: the season of spring cleaning! Motivate yourself with catchy tunes from these eco-conscious musicians--their big-scale clean-up efforts will make your elbow grease pale in comparison.

We didn’t just pick these artists for fun–they all use their music to help keep the environment “clean.” Sheryl Crow’s latest album was released in recycled paperboard packages with a seed-paper inset you could plant to grow wildflowers. Radiohead (among others) request that fans carpool to concerts to decrease the carbon footprint of music tours, and Reverb (founded by Adam Gardner of Guster) provides green touring services to bands. KT Tunstall also runs her bus on a biodiesel blend, and Perry Farrell (formerly of Jane’s Addiction and the founder of summer festival Lollapalooza) ran his entire 2003 festival on the alterna-fuel. Jack Johnson records in a solar-power studio, his Brushfire label releases CDs on recycle paper packaging. Jared Leto’s band headed to the Arctic Circle to film the video for “A Beautiful Lie”, helping to raise awareness on global warming, and the members of Dave Matthews Band hand out free bikes in their hometown to cut down on nasty car emissions.